README.md

SVAC-LVM-tutorial

This repository provides the material for a workshop on latent variable modeling (LVM) applied to human-coded data of reports on sexual violence in armed conflict (SVAC). This empirical work forms part of ongoing research by Ragnhild Nordås and Jule Krüger, with advice from Christopher Fariss.

The organization of this repository follows HRDAG's principled data processing guidelines. This includes the organization of tasks into separate directories (e.g., import/, estimate/, visualize/, present/, etc.), the division of task directories into input/, src/, and output/ directories, and the use of GNU Make to achieve a self-documenting workflow. To run a Makefile from your command line, navigate to the relevant task repository (e.g., "$: cd ~/git/SVAC-LVM-tutorial/import/") and execute "$: make -f Makefile". To run Makefiles on Mac OS, install the XCode Command Line Tools.